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The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1887-06-25
AN AN NAL ARMY.
The Strange Migrations and Self-Destruc
tion of the Lemmings.

tiOn OF the Jennings.
Marvellous invaders are the lem
mings. They are near relatives of the
short-tailed field-mouse, and are about
five inches long. with round heads,
brown fur, and bead-like eyes. Their
home is in the highlands, or fells, of the
great central mountain chain of Sweden
and Norway, where they build nests of
grass for their young. The jennings
are spiteful little creatures when
aroused, sitting up on their hind legs
and fighting with will. Not only are
they pugnacious, but extremely restless
and migratory as we'll; and every five,
ten or twenty years they seem pos
sessed by desire to see foreign lands.
Thcreupon, they one and all leave
their settlements and start out in tens
of thousands, overrun the cultivated
tracts of land in both Norway and
Sweden, and ruin the plants and vcge-
tation. They march only at night,
pressing on slowly in one straight
course, and allow nothing to disturb
them. Birds and various animals fol-
low and prey upon them; but, notwith-
standing this, they actually increase in
numbers, gaining recruits as they adj
vance, Rivers are swum and hills
crossed, until, finally. the Atlantic or
the Gulf of Bothnia is reached.
But still impelled by the same blind
instict that has led it onward, the en-
tire vast concourse plunges into the
sea, swimming onward, tho little ami
mails piling one upon another rs they
are beaten back, until at times their
bodies have formed veritable sea-walls.
Boatmen returning TO the beach have
found their way obstructed by Il strug-
Cling horde that has just reached the
sea. The number of Jennings in these
bands is beyond all computation.
Sometimes the march is kept up for
three years before the wateris reached.
--Char.es Frederick Holder, in 81. Micn-
oias
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1887-06-25

Excessive rope-jmping has just
caused the death Of two little givls in
Pittsburgh,
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1887-06-25

storical Sketch of the Pioneer
Town of the, Hooking.

bventurea of Mrs. Green. the Mother of
The First White child ,ioncer Mail Car
kiers--An Old d-Fashioned Fourth Of July.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-11-13
ILLOGICAL,

She stood beside me while gave an order
for bonnet;
She shuddered when I Eaid: "And put a
bright birds wing upon it"
A member of the Audubon Society was she,
And cutting were her comments upon
worldly folks like me.
She spoke about the helpless birds we
WickedIy were harming,
She quoted the statistics, and they really
were alarming.
She said God made His little birds to sing in
trees and skies,
And there was pathos in her speaking, and
tears were in her eyes.
Oh, surely in this beauteous world you can
find lovely things
Enough to trim your hats" she said, with
out the dear birds wings"
I sat beside her thst same day, in her own
home at dinner
Angelic being that she was to entertain a
sinner.
Her well-appointed table groaned beneath
the ample spread.
Course followed appetizing course, and
hunger almost fled.
And then my charming hostess cried; DO
have a reed bard, dear;
For they're so delicate and sweet at this
time of the yearn'
Ella Wheeler Wilcox in the Cosmopolitan.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-11-13
THE DYING EDITOR.
His Last ReQuests-Relief From
Chestnuts.

The owner of paper lay dying in his
lair, and the dew of death had gathered
on his brow so calm and fair; but
printer knelt beside him, as his life
blood ebbed away, and asked the dying
writer if he had a word to say. The
doomed man murmured softly as he
grabbed the printers fist: well, at
last the struggles over, and 1 never
will be missed. Take a message and a
token to that city man OF mine, that all
his worn out chestnuts he had better
put in brine. There's his joke about the
weather, which he's used these many
years, and the gag about the fellow who
is always hunting beers. And the item
he's so fond of, on the man who peddles
books, and the chestnut based on peo-
pie who 60 fishing at the brooks; Just to
save the papers credit, and to cast no
sl0rs on mine, | would ask him as
favor just to put such gags in brine.
And the lies he's fond of telling of the
street cars and the tracks, and the joke
about the man who stepped upon some
tacks, and the one about some dandy
who will never pay for clothes, and the
one on women cleaning house-it's
weary, heaven knowsi Oh, l know III
slumber happy in nay grave beneath the
vine, if the man who does the city work
will put these jokes in brine. Tell the
man who tends to business not to weep
when l am dead, but to buy himself a
club and hit the first man on the head,
who comes in with strings of items and
requests them printed free. when the re-
gular rates are cheaper than they really
ought to be. Tell the foreman when he
makes up not to turn rule for me, but
to simply print an item saying that my
soul is free; for l want no eulogistic
taffy of that kind in mine, and l Think
such hoary chestnuts should be picked
well in brine. Have the gay and fresh
reporter engaged the other day, put a
stop to saying "Selah," also 1--WE have
come to stay" and if he should say I'VE
local" you must trample in his gore, for
you know I'd ne'er allow it in the happy
days of yore. And the man who comes
to tell you how to run the paper well,
should be greeted when he enters with
d pewter chestnut bell; and you'll print
the paper promptly, be the weather full
of storms. and the foreman must be
careful when he's making up the forms,
that the beauty OF the paper through all
ages shine, and not be like its neigh
bors, only fit to put in brine.-Atchison
Globe.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-11-13
DON'T LAUGH ATTHE SERVANT OF
THE LORD.

oh, he she bars GENE wen old 'Ligy blow'd
his hon,
Doan yer laugh at de sarvent o. de Lawd
An da grabbed up de chillun like er hawk
eatin' con.
Doan yer laugh at de sarvent o. de Lawd
Go up, old baldy, lowed the freckle-face
chile,
Doan yer laugh at de sarvent o. de Lawd.
An dem er bar grabbed him wild er mighty
broad smile,
Doan yer laugh at de sarvent O. de Lawd.
De POI chile hollereo an tried to get loose,
Doan yer laugh at de sarvent O. de L4wd
But de bar drug him off like er varmint wild
goose,
Doan yer laugh at de sarvent O. de Lawd.
Doan yer laugh at de sarvent O. de Lawd,
young man,
Doan yer laugh at de prophet III de lane.
Fer de bars mout cum rum de WOODS, young
An eat yer up 'gardless O. de pain, pain,
An, eat yer up 'gardless o. de pain.
Den praise old Ligy, and praise Mars Saul,
An Wen dance wild David rom de ark in
de hall.
Oh, yer better be keerful when yer filters at
er man.
Doan yer laugh at de sarvent O. de Lawd.
Fur yer mOut strike de prophet o de Jordan
River BAN,
DOdu yer lduSn dI ue sdINSAt uO ba"u'
AR' it mout be de case dat de pusson with
out ha'r,
Doan yer laugh at de sarvent o. de Lawd.
Hab got er awful 'huence wild de hallelujah
bar,
Doan yer laugh at de sarvent o. de Lawd.
An den yer eyes is open wen it's dun too
late.
Doan yer laugh at de sarvent O. de ] AVID.
Dat yer hab crooked yer finger at de wrong
sort er pate,
Doan yer laugh at de saryent O. de Lawd
-Arkansaw. Traveller.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-11-13
HE CAVED IN AT LAST.
After Numerous Reverses, Johns
Dog 0vercOmes Him.

A settler who had had bad luck
financially was finally taken sick. A
friend called 10 see him and said to his
wife:
~ was surprised to hear of your hus-
bands sickness thought he was re-
markable strong and healty."
Yes, John was always very healthy,
but he got SO discouraged at last that it
jes' made him sick"
But he was always of such cheer
full and buoyant disposition l never ex-
pected to see him give up this way"
Yes, John was always mighty gritty.
When the barn burnt up an killed the
new team he never said a word, but ies'
braced up an built another barn an
got another team"
Eyes, remember he did"
"Tben when the house burnt he didn't
complain bit, but went to living in q
tent jes' as cheerful"
II know it,"
when the farm was sold on a mort
gage an the children were all took sick
John KEEP right up as happy as ever. "
Eyes, that's So"
"By n by the sheriff took the cow an
cook stove, an wagon run over John 8
lou Ill SunbSllSU IL, Dut SGlil ne QlQn [
pear to be bit discouraged"
II know he didn't"
Then our oldest girl run away an
married corn doctor, both our horses
died, John got beat on law suit an
fell down an broke his leg. Still he
held his head right up an said he'd
come out on top yet"
Yes; well, what was it that could
possibly have occurred to break his
spirit and make him sick at last?"
HE had to sell the old black dog for
50 cents to git money to buy -four, an
the man just bought him for his hide
an nothing else an we knew it! Just
as soon as John saw the man tie old
Tige under the wagon he come right in
and thro8ed himself on the bed an
says he: "Samsnthy, that's too much
to stand-I wont never git up ofHn this
bed live mani" / reckon I won't be
long follerin' him-you orter seen the
way old Tige could take hog by the
ear an swing it right around in cir
cle ~
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-11-13
She Watches for the bridegroom

1t is at this season of the year that
the wives OF clergymen think about
purchasing sealskin coats and costly
winter bonnets. There is, to be sure, a
delightful uncertainty about whether
they will or viii not be able to secure
what their hearts desire, the whole
question hinging on the number of
marriages their husbands will be called
upon to perform and the liberality of
the several bridegrooms. When the
doorbell of the rectory or the parsonage
tiDgles the good lady of the house now
rushes to the head OF the stairs and
listens intently. II the caller is young
gentleman and her husband is asked
for, her heart beats fast with hope, for
there are nine chances in ten that the
visitor is prospective bridegroom. In
fact, st this season, the life of the par
sons wife is one of continual expect
ancy. Anxiously she awaits the return
of her spouse from each wedding feast.
and with trembling fingers she opens
each envelope ne hands her.
ut is my experience" said one of
these ladies the other day, that the
Well-to-dO man almost invariably gives
q small amount, while the poor, hard
working clerk or mechanic gives what
seems to be more than he can afford ~
Philadelphia Bulletin.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-11-13

THE STATEMENT that the Gear has the
measles As disappointing. We had sup
poseQ that he had the humps, which
are much more terrific in that climate
than the measles.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-11-13

BISHOP COKE is sick at heart when he
sinks of that CHI Lrch member who pays
500 for an opera box. but, attending
free church. drops only cents in the
aims box.-New York Herald.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-11-13

The FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH for col
ored people in the south, was organized
100 years ago in Georgia. Their ami
versary occurs on the 10th of January.
There are now 1,40O colored Baptist
churches in the south, with 500 minis
tiers, 2 900 Hcentiates and 100, 900 mem
bers.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-11-13

Ex-MAYoR CARTER HARRISON, of Chi
cago, relates that at Toxic, in Japan,
he was so impressed by the apparent
sobriety OF the Japanese that he ques
toned the archbishop at Yokohama as
to its cause. The archbishop explained
that when a JapSRese got drunk he at
snee went to sleep.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-11-13

THE REPUBLICANS of Baltimore made
the last municipal issue on the fraud
cry" The result is that the Demo
Gratis have tracked them at their own
game, and have proven them guilty of
the worst election frauds on record in
that ity,
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-11-13

LOUISVILLE Democrat: When a law
yer draws a conveyance, is he horse or
q mule?
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-11-13

LOWELL Citizen: The man who has
seen better days" is now having very
bad nights.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-11-13

Boston Bulletin: 1t is sad to see fam
lily relics sold at auction, but the most
painful thing under the hammer is gen
orally your thumb nail.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-11-13

Exchange: The Republican party still
seems to be in the active voice, but it is
rapidly drifting into the innocuous
mood and past tense.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-11-13

a NEW worhngman's paper in Texas
is called The Daily Diuner-Horn.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-11-13

THE CINCINNATI Commercial Gazette
resents the idea that John Sherman
lacks tact. The truth Is that John not
only lacks tact, but he lacks patriotism.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-11-13

Exchange: Things are bad enough
now, but when the women get into
Office we shall have a good deal more
miss management.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-11-13

Puck: A maker of automatons re-
Gently made some Anarchists, but they
wouldn't work.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-11-13

CHICAGO Inter Ocean: In the way OF
the world, it IS the lucky Spectator
that avoids the squeeze" and locates
"A the "corner."
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-11-13

The AUTHOR of THE Science of the
Beautiful" is dead. Naturally.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-11-13

CHICAGO AND st. Louis are engaged in
their quadrcnnial struggle for the two
party nominating conventions to be held
next year.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-11-13

SHILOH'S CATARRH REMEDY
positive cure for Catarrh, Diptheria
and Cancer Mouth. For sale at a. @
Smith d Co.'S DKEs etc -. Z
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-11-13

THERE ARE only eight political parties
in New York, and the racket they make
is almost equal to an Ohio voting match.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-11-13
EVENTS AND COMMENTS.

AS THE days grow shorter the oysters
grow longer.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-11-13

SHILOH'S CURE will immediately
relieve Croop, Whooplng Cough and
Broncn1tis. For sale at 4. @. Smith d
Co.'s Drug Store. "A
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-11-13

& certain Elginette was asked by q
preacher why he didn't come to church
oftener and bring his children. He re-
Piled that the little folks would make
too much noise. They can't make any
more than 1 can" answered the
preacher, and thus encouraged the
fond father has ventured out.-Elgin
Ull.) NelUs.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-11-13

A pRoHIBITIoNIsT lecturer at Wauke-
sha got gIoriously drank the other
night. Immediately following his
forensic effort. We have heard of the
two enterprising Yankees who started
out Oh temperance reform expedition,
one of whom did the lecturing and the
other set the horrible example. But
this is the first instance that has come
to cur knowledge where one man has
engaged in the dual capacity the same
night.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-11-13

KINe IA IA, the African monarch
leposed by the English authorities for
attempting to get up corner in palm
oil, has been sent as state prisoner to
London. He is at present confined in
the baggage-room of one of the hotels,
and tue British colonial officers are
wondering what on earth they are to
do with him.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-11-13

The Freeman's Journal Or. O., IN
der the inquiry SIS This Justice?"
says: 1.-The psrochisl schools of New
York City are attended by 10000 chill
dren. 1t takes $50 year to keep a
child in the public schools-at least, it
costs the taxpayers that much The
psrochial school saves the public
treasury over 81 100000 year, and the
Catholics still pay their proportion OF
the school tax"
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1887-11-16
HOTEL ARRIVALS.

SOUTHERN HoTEL.-J Andrew, Selma,
Ala; Ed Hooper, Waco; Samuel Kilibrew, n
! X X, Mexico; 7 W Hubbard, Ranch; | NJ
Campbell, Del Rio; Z Pierce and wife, Lare-
do; + NJ Shick, Waco; Mrs App Jones, Laredo:
Chas 4 Miller, City; II ID HUFF Denison; J X
Guess, Cuero; John A Houston, Mississippi
John A Kerr, Cotulla; NJ Young, st Angus.
tine, Fla; NJ Seawright, Austin; A S ToOke,
Pueblo Pala; Corr Lucy, Austin; L Mitchell,
Memphis, Tenn; JOakin Casas, San Juan; ID
Richardson, Dallas; II Chiles, City; E
Franks, Houston.
MENGER HOTEL-R Winkelmann, st Louis;
@ Bedell Moore and wife, Texas: G z Rabbit,
U army; Jules A Randle, Monterey; ThOs
Caden, New York; Chas z Miller, Brownsville;
Mrs Geo Lying, California; L Il Nissan, New
York; G 4 FrOmmann, st Louis; + Mann,
Boston; 8 + Utley, Houston; X Driscoll,
Ranch; J II Heating, Chicago; Miss Alice
Glow, Coleman; A l. McLane and wife, Laredo
d c Duncan, Chicago; A Fay, Dallas; G II
RumbOugh, W Brown, W Ewing, X Gamma ID
Richardson, Denney, NJ Herman, VI Kcl-
ley and wife, I Keefe, New ork Ball Club.
MAVERICK HOTEL.-H jacob, Chicago: A
Mailer, New York; r Qualtro, II II Halha-
way, Houston; W p Hickey, st Louis: Ed
Richardson, Marshall; w Rose, 81 Louis W
b Archer, II l. Young, New Orleans; } W
WinslOw, Chicago; r Walker, Coma es; J
Hsrtung st Louis; WIN S Hart, kentucky; J
Irwin, New Orleans; II A Mason, Dallas; John
Atwood, Washington; Sullivan, Texas
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1887-11-16
SCISSORED OUT.

A Syracuse gas meter went so fast
that 1t burst.
Paper doors are said to be Increasing
In popularity.
The latest French dress requires two
persons to put 1t on.
Black furs turned partly gray by cleo
trlcity are late novelty.
A bronze inkstand resembling a per-
simmOn Is n novelty from Japan.
A mean thief in Warren, o., dug up a
widows turnip crop by night.
Canada expects to furnish homes to a
large number OF Iceland emigrants this
winter.
Water Ia so scarce around Rocky Hill,
Conn, that the babies are bRthed In
hard cider.
Red, gray, brown and green In soft
ened shades are the popular COlOTs for
felt hats.
The Protestant Episcopal Cathedral
In New York is to be modelled after st.
Peters at Rome.
Sleeves of a fabric different from thai
OF the oorssge are seen on cloth and
silk gowns.
Plush fabrics in stripes and large
figures are revived for the skirts Of
cloths and silk dresses.
Shot cloths are new wooden stuff.
woven in two colOrs, so as to give the
"changeable" effect now so fashionable
Embroidered crepe lisse in stripes ant
dots is used In combination with satin
MORE and Bengsline for evening
| dresses.
The reign Of glitter in dress will soon
be over; beads and beaded trimmings
are rapidly being driven to the back
ground.
Pushes OF two kinds, one with long
| fieecy pile, the other short and velvety
are used for many Of the handsomest
short warps.
In rich costumes three fabrics are now
| often employed, favorfte combination
being brOcaded with repped silk and
| velvet.
The Alpine, the English turban, the
| Boulanger, the Richelieu, the Lady Gay
and the Admiral are the favorite hats Of
the season.
One of the very latest designs 10
| bracelets Ia a series Of golden knots
each knot being set either with O ruby
sapphire or diamond.
The latest idea in ladies' collar but.
tons is a shamrock, composed of dia.
mOnd, ruby and sapphire, set into q
disk Of Roman gold.
Long gloves for full dress have the kIC
only long enough to cover the wrist, the
rest OF the glove being made of lace net
Of exactly the same shade.
Tea jackets or matinee saeques arr
charming garments, made of soft suraI
or India sllks, trimmed with much golf
embroidery and with lace.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1887-11-16
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.

Material for the Mexican National is
pouring into Corpus Christi.
Election outrages reported near Cof.
feeyille, Miss.
The car will rot assist Abyssinia
against Italy and England.
The national association Of the Baptist
church Is In session at Indianapolis.
King It Rorhback, druggist at Ennis,
are bankrupt.
Governor Of Porto Rico recalled by
the Spanish government.
Stanley was within 400 miles OF Emin
Bey on the 9TH OF October.
The crown princes csncerous growth
Is small as yet.
Don Pedro visits the crown prince at
San Reno.
Sparks defends his course In the
Omaha and st. Paul land grant matter.
Bank OF Lskin, Kansas, closes it's
doors and assigns.
Laredo passes out Of several days
heavy rain into sunshine.
The Shah of Persia, contemplates a
European tour next spring.
Roseberry beats LyttOn in contest for
reotorship Of Edinburgh university SG7 to
$40.
John Weber. young clerk In the
Northern Pacific Express company, gets
away with $1,000.
Sheridan wants the San Carlos Indi-
ans punched, and troops enough In the
vicinity to look after them.
Testimony shows that Wilson, Crews
son-in-law. got 100000 francs in brides,
and Grevys nephew is also implicated,
Commissions In the engineers and ar
tiilery branches Of the kussan service
will be open only to the sons of the no.
bility. hereafter.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1887-11-16
BRAVO MACKAY.
Practical Charity Exemplfed by a
Prominent San Antonian.

Practical Charity ExemplifIed by a
Prominent San AntonIan.
Capt. N. Mackay was the foreman OF
grand Jury that indicted Sophia Teller
for the murder OF her illegitimate child.
As he then explained, the sympathies
OF the grand jury were with the girl,
but the facts against her were so plain
that IL had no alternative than to indiot
her. IL, like the petit jury, the grand
jury had had the opportunity of enqulr-
ing fully into the mitigating circum-
stances Of the case there Is no question
that 1t would have acquitted the pris-
oner, but IL had not, and therefore she
has TO take her trial for the ofiense.
Capt. Mackay and his kind-hearted
wife are of opinion that the poor girl
has suffered enough for her folly and
have determined that she shall at least
have a chance OF recovering her status
as far rs possible. For this reason they
have offered her home In their family
where she will be well treated and Will
receive an adequate salary. When
Sophia was released on bond yesterday,
Capt. Maokay made her this offer In
kindly way, and the poor girl, moved to
tears by the unexpected kindness. grace
fully accepted the offer and will go to
her new home.
This is indeed well and the LIGHT lie
glad to record such an instance Of true
practical charity; but 1t wonders why
Sophia Feller's sedUcer has not been
brought to justice. Is this another case
where all the blame and punishment
lies on the pOor unfortunate victim and
the sneaking sedu0er escapes punish
ment? II $50, there should be remedy
to ayenge outraged justice.